2000s

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A man got to have a code.

Omar Little

The Wire

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Topic

Moral principles Moral theory

Speaker

Omar Little

Actor

Michael Kenneth Williams

Source

The Wire

Medium

TV program

Genre

Crime (TV) Drama (TV) Crime Drama

Statement Type

Precepts and axioms

Language

English

Time

2006 2000s 21st century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

"Unto Others." The Wire, written by David Simon and William F. Zorzi and Ed Burns, directed by Anthony Hemingway, season 4, episode 7, Blown Deadline Productions and Home Box Office, 2006.

You come at the king, you best not miss.

Omar Little

The Wire

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Speaker

Omar Little

Actor

Michael Kenneth Williams

Source

The Wire

Medium

TV program

Genre

Crime (TV) Drama (TV) Crime Drama

Statement Type

Warning

Language

English

Time

2002 2000s 21st century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

"Lessons." The Wire, written by David Simon and Ed Burns, directed by Gloria Muzio, season 1, episode 8, Blown Deadline Productions and Home Box Office, 2002.

Are you not entertained?

Gladiator

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Topic

Entertainment The masses

Speaker

Maximus Decimus Meridius

Actor

Russell Crowe

Source

Gladiator

Medium

Film

Genre

Historical drama (film) Drama (film) Historical drama Drama

Statement Type

Question

Language

English

Time

2000 2000s 21st century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Gladiator. Directed by Ridley Scott. DreamWorks Pictures/ Scott Free Productions/Universal Pictures/Red Wagon Entertainment, 2000.

You probably heard we ain't in the prisoner-takin' business; we in the killin' Nazi business and cousin, business is a-boomin'.

Inglourious Basterds

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Topic

World War II

Speaker

Lt. Aldo Raine

Actor

Brad Pitt

Source

Inglourious Basterds

Medium

Film

Genre

War (film) War

Language

English

Time

2009 2000s 21st century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Inglourious Basterds. Directed by Quentin Tarantino, A Band Apart/Studio Babelsberg/Visiona Romantica, 2009.

Brothers, what we do in life...echoes in eternity.

Gladiator

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Topic

Legacy Repercussions Actions have consequences

Speaker

Maximus Decimus Meridius

Actor

Russell Crowe

Source

Gladiator

Medium

Film

Genre

Historical drama (film) Drama (film) Historical drama Drama

Language

English

Time

2000 2000s 21st century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Gladiator. Directed by Ridley Scott. DreamWorks Pictures/ Scott Free Productions/Universal Pictures/Red Wagon Entertainment, 2000.

I live my life a quarter mile at a time. Nothing else matters: not the mortgage, not the store, not my team and all that bullshit. For those ten seconds or less, I'm free.

Dominic Toretto

The Fast and The Furious

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Topic

Living in the moment

Speaker

Dominic Toretto

Actor

Vin Diesel

Source

The Fast and The Furious

Medium

Film

Genre

Action (film) Action

Language

English

Time

2001 2000s 21st century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

The Fast and The Furious. Directed by Rob Cohen, Universal Pictures, 2001.

Courage is as contagious as fear.

Susan Sontag

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Topic

Courage vs. fear Courage Fear

Speaker

Susan Sontag

Medium

Speech

Language

English

Time

2003 2000s 21st century

Authentication Score 1

Citation

Sontag, Susan. "Of Courage and Resistance." The Romero Award Ceremony. 30 Mar. 2003, Rothko Chapel, Houston, TX, USA. Keynote address.

Look, if you had one shot, one opportunity, to seize everything you ever wanted? One moment. Would you capture it? Or just let it slip?

8 Mile

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Topic

Going for it Opportunities

Speaker

Jimmy 'B-Rabbit' Smith

Actor

Eminem

Source

8 Mile

Medium

Film

Genre

Musical (film) Drama (film) Musical Drama

Statement Type

Question

Language

English

Time

2002 2000s 21st century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

8 Mile. Directed by Curtis Hanson. Imagine Entertainment/Mikona Productions/GmbH & Co. KG, 2002.

You don't ever have to do anything sensational for people to love you.

Fred Rogers

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Topic

Recognition Achievement Success Self-worth

Speaker

Fred Rogers

Source

2002 Dartmouth commencement address

Medium

Speech

Genre

Commencement address

Statement Type

Advice

Language

English

Time

2002 2000s 21st century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Rogers, Fred. Commencement address to the Dartmouth Class of 2002. Commencement cermony. 2002, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, USA.

What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas.

The Hangover

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Topic

Las Vegas

Speaker

Sid Garner

Actor

Jeffrey Tambor

Source

The Hangover

Medium

Film

Genre

Comedy (film) Comedy

Language

English

Time

2009 2000s 21st century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

The Hangover. Directed by Todd Phillips, Ledgendary Entertainment/Greenhat Films/Bender/Spink, 2009.

We used to make shit in this country, build shit. Now we just put our hand in the next guy’s pocket.

Frank Sobotka

The Wire

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Topic

Deindustrialization American decline Decline

Speaker

Frank Sobotka

Actor

Chris Bauer

Source

The Wire

Medium

TV program

Genre

Crime (TV) Drama (TV) Crime Drama

Language

English

Time

2003 2000s 21st century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

"Bad Dreams." The Wire, written by David Simon and George Pelecanos and Joy Kecken, directed by Ernest R. Dickerson, season 2, episode 11, Blown Deadline Productions and Home Box Office, 2003.

Baghdad is safe, protected. There are no American infidels in Baghdad.

Mohammed al-Sahhaf

From a press briefing during the 2003 American invasion of Iraq.

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Topic

Iraq War

Speaker

Mohammed al-Sahhaf

Medium

Press conference

Statement Type

Lies Propaganda

Language

English

Time

2003 2000s 21st century

Authentication Score 1

Citation

Al-Sahhaf, Mohammed. Quoted in Sunday Telegraph. 13 Apr. 2003. Originally a press conference. c. 7 Apr. 2003, Baghdad, Iraq.

I don't know where I'm going but I'll get there on time.

Robert Rauschenberg

Quoted in The New Yorker

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Topic

Journey vs. destination

Speaker

Robert Rauschenberg

Source

The New Yorker

Medium

Interview Magazine

Statement Type

Zen koan

Language

English

Time

2005 2000s 21st century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Rauschenberg, Robert. "Everything in Sight: Robert Rauschenberg's New Life." Interviewed by Calvin Tompkins. The New Yorker, 23 May 2005, www.newyorker.com/magazine/2005/05/23/everything-in-sight.

Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.

Steve Jobs

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Topic

Following your heart Taking risks Death

Speaker

Steve Jobs

Source

2005 Stanford commencement address

Medium

Speech

Genre

Commencement address

Statement Type

Advice

Language

English

Time

2005 2000s 21st century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Jobs, Steve. Stanford Commencement Address. 12 June 2005, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA.

I don't know who you are. I don't know what you want. If you are looking for ransom, I can tell you I don't have money. But what I do have are a very particular set of skills, skills I have acquired over a very long career. Skills that make me a nightmare for people like you. If you let my daughter go now, that'll be the end of it. I will not look for you, I will not pursue you. But if you don't, I will look for you, I will find you, and I will kill you.

Taken

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Speaker

Bryan Mills

Actor

Liam Neeson

Source

Taken

Medium

Film

Genre

Action (film) Thriller (film) Action Thriller

Statement Type

Threat

Language

English

Time

2008 2000s 21st century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Taken. Directed by Pierre Morel, EuropaCorp/M6 Films/Grive Productions/Canal+ TPS Star/M6, 2008.

Summer romances end for all kinds of reasons, but when all is said and done, they have one thing in common. They are shooting stars, a spectacular moment of light in the heavens, a fleeting glimpse of eternity, and in a flash they're gone.

The Notebook

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Topic

Summer love Flings Falling in love

Speaker

Duke

Actor

James Garner

Source

The Notebook

Medium

Film

Genre

Romantic drama (film) Romantic drama

Language

English

Time

2004 2000s 21st century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

The Notebook. Directed by Nick Cassavetes, Gran Via, 2004.

Our world hangs like a magnificent jewel in the vastness of space. Every one of us is a part of that jewel, a facet of that jewel. And in the perspective of infinity, our differences are infinitesimal. We are intimately related.

Fred Rogers

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Topic

Interconnectedness of all people The world

Speaker

Fred Rogers

Source

2002 Dartmouth commencement address

Medium

Speech

Genre

Commencement address

Language

English

Time

2002 2000s 21st century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Rogers, Fred. Commencement address to the Dartmouth Class of 2002. Commencement cermony. 2002, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, USA.

As we know, there are known knowns-there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns-that is to say, we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns, the ones we don’t know we don’t know.

Donald Rumsfeld

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Topic

The unknown Epistemology Knowledge American politics

Speaker

Donald Rumsfeld

Medium

Press conference

Language

English

Time

2002 2000s 21st century

Authentication Score 2

Citation

Rumsfeld, Donald. Department of Defense news briefing. 12 Feb. 2002, Pentagon, Washington, DC, USA.

Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won't either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart. You are here to be swallowed up. And when it happens that you are broken, or betrayed, or left, or hurt, or death brushes near, let yourself sit by an apple tree and listen to the apples falling all around you in heaps, wasting their sweetness. Tell yourself you tasted as many as you could.

Louise Erdrich

The Painted Drum

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Topic

Vulnerability Taking risks

Author

Louise Erdrich

Source

The Painted Drum

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

2005 2000s 21st century

Authentication Score 1

Citation

Erdrich, Louise. The Painted Drum. Harper, 2005.

If you like it, then you shoulda put a ring on it.

Beyonce

Single Ladies

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Topic

Commitment (relationships) Marriage Men and women

Speaker

Beyonce

Source

Single Ladies

Medium

Song

Genre

Pop music

Language

English

Time

2008 2000s 21st century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Beyonce. "Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)." Cowritten with Terius Nash and Thaddis Harrell and Christopher Stewart. Performed by Beyonce. I Am... Sasha Fierce. Columbia Records, 2008.